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You want complete etymologies? Or just how they came by their present names? The boroughs as they are now came into being on 1 April 1965 along with the creation of Greater London from the previous City of London, the London County Council area (made up of Metropolitan Boroughs) and parts of the counties of Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Essex, Kent and Surrey. The county of Middlesex ceased to exist after the reorganisation; of the little that was left over Staines and Sunbury-on-Thames were transferred to Surrey and Potters Bar to Hertfordshire. Some boroughs took the name of one (generally the dominant one) or more of the local authority areas they were formed from. Some went further back in history and chose an old name associated with the area. Some took the name of a local geographic feature.The full list (no, not all from my head, I did the research for you! I may be a social statistics geek but there are limits.):The City and County of the City of London: unchanged. Sui generis and not regarded as a London borough. The de jure capital of the UK and thus vying with Vaduz, Liechtenstein, as the smallest capital city in Europe.Barking and Dagenham: ESSEX: Municipal Borough of Barking, part of Municipal Borough of Dagenham (all but Hog Hill). Called London Borough of Barking until 1980 when the council voted to add Dagenham to the name.Barnet: MIDDLESEX: Municipal Borough of Finchley, Municipal Borough of Hendon, Urban District of Friern Barnet. HERTFORDSHIRE: Urban District of Barnet, Urban District of East Barnet. Named after a town within the area. The largest borough by population.Bexley: KENT: Municipal Borough of Bexley, Municipal Borough of Erith, Urban District of Crayford, part of the Urban District of Chislehurst and Sidcup (the Sidcup part). Named after the borough of Bexley.Brent: MIDDLESEX: Municipal Borough of Wembley, Municipal Borough of Willesden. Named after the River Brent which flows through the borough.Bromley: KENT: Municipal Borough of Beckenham, Municipal Borough of Bromley, Urban District of Orpington, Urban District of Penge, part of the Urban District of Chislehurst and Sidcup (the Chislehurst part). The largest borough by area.Camden: LONDON: Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead, Metropolitan Borough of Holborn. Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras. Named after the district of Camden Town within the borough.Croydon: SURREY: County Borough of Croydon, Urban District of Coulsdon and Purley. Named after Croydon, which until 1965 had been the largest town in the south of England after London and the largest in Britain not to have been granted city status. I do know the etymology of this one: it means ‘valley of crows’.Ealing: MIDDLESEX: Municipal Borough of Acton, Municipal Borough of Ealing, Municipal Borough of Southall.Enfield: MIDDLESEX: Municipal Borough of Edmonton, Municipal Borough of Enfield, Municipal Borough of Southgate.Greenwich, Royal Borough of. LONDON: Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich, part of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich (all except the parish of North Woolwich). Named after the town of Greenwich, home of the Royal Observatory and hence of the Greenwich Meridian. Became a Royal Borough in 2012.Hackney. LONDON: Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington.Hammersmith and Fulham. LONDON: Metropolitan Borough of Fulham, Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith. Called the London Borough of Hammersmith until 1979 when the council voted to incorporate Fulham into the name.Haringey. MIDDLESEX: Municipal Borough of Hornsey, Municipal Borough of Tottenham, Municipal Borough of Wood Green. There is a district called Harringay in the borough (it’s a great place to find Turkish restaurants) but the borough name is not an affected amalgamation of the names Harringay and Hornsey as I assumed for years but an old name for the whole Hornsey/Harringay area.Harrow: MIDDLESEX: Municipal Borough of Harrow. The only borough to remain unchanged after the reorganisation.Havering: ESSEX: Municipal Borough of Romford, Urban District of Hornchurch. The name is taken from the ancient Royal Liberty of Havering-atte-Bower. There is still a village of Havering-atte-Bower right on the rural Essex border of the borough and IMHO has to be one of the most attractive entries to Greater London. (‘Havering’ is also a Scots word for talking nonsense.)Hillingdon. MIDDLESEX: Municipal Borough of Uxbridge, Urban District of Hayes and Harlington, Urban District of Ruislip-Northwood, Urban District of Yiewsley and West Drayton. Was originally to have been Uxbridge but Hillingdon, the name of a centrally-located village, was chosen as a compromise.Hounslow: MIDDLESEX: Municipal Borough of Brentford and Chiswick, Municipal Borough of Feltham, Municipal Borough of Heston and Isleworth. Named after Hounslow Heath and the associated village of Hounslow.Islington: LONDON: Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury, Metropolitan Borough of Islington.Kensington and Chelsea, Royal Borough of: LONDON: Royal Borough of Kensington, Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea. Inherited the Royal Borough status from Kensington.Kingston upon Thames, Royal Borough of: SURREY: Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames, Municipal Borough of Maldon and Coombe, Municipal Borough of Surbiton. Inherited Royal Borough status from Kingston-upon-Thames, the oldest such designation formally from 1927. Kingston remains the extraterritorial administrative centre of Surrey.Lambeth: LONDON: Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth, part of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth (Clapham and Streatham).Lewisham: LONDON: Metropolitan Borough of Deptford, Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham.Merton: SURREY: Municipal Borough of Mitcham, Municipal Borough of Wimbledon, Urban District of Merton and Morden. Merton was chosen as a compromise after a dispure between Mitcham and Wimbledon,Newham: ESSEX: County Borough of East Ham, County Borough of West Ham. LONDON: part of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich (parish of North Woolwich).Redbridge: ESSEX: Municipal Borough of Ilford, Municipal Borough of Wanstead and Woodford, part of Municipal Borough of Dagenham (Hog Hill), part of Urban District of Chigwell (Hainault). The name is a compromise, after a former bridge over the River Roding, demolished in 1921, that gave its name to Redbridge station on the Central Line and the district that grew around it.Richmond upon Thames: MIDDLESEX: Municipal Borough of Twickenham. SURREY: Municipal Borough of Barnes, Municipal Borough of Richmond. “Our lesson is, that there are two Richmonds, one in Surrey and one in Yorkshire, and that mine is the Surrey Richmond.”, says Estella in Great Expectations. Richmond was neither the largest (Twickenham) nor the most ancient (it was called Sheen until the 16th century when Henry VII, the former Earl of Richmond (in Yorkshire), had a palace built there) but its royal connections prevailed. The ‘upon Thames’ was added to remove centuries of confusion with the ancient borough of Richmond in Yorkshire, which gave its name to all the other Richmonds in the world including that in Virginia. The only borough with territory on both banks of the Thames.Southwark: LONDON: Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey, Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell, Metropolitan Borough of Southwark.Sutton: SURREY: Municipal Borough of Beddington and Wallington, Municipal Borough of Sutton and Cheam, Urban District of Carshalton. Was originally supposed to include the Municipal Borough of Epsom and Ewell but that idea was dropped after a protest. Sutton remains the smallest of the outer boroughs.Tower Hamlets: LONDON: Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green, Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, Metropolitan Borough of Stepney. The old East End, its former boroughs heavily depopulated by wartime bombing and relocation of its traditional Jewish community to the northern suburbs and traditional Cockneys to new towns in Essex and Hertfordshire, now replaced by incomers from Bangladesh and financiers from the City. The name references an ancient medieval Liberty, a series of Thames-side parishes that owed military obligations to the Constable of the Tower of London.Waltham Forest: ESSEX: Metropolitan Borough of Chingford, Metropolitan Borough of Leyton, Metropolitan Borough of Walthamstow. The name refers to an ancient royal hunting forest, of which Epping Forest is a surviving remnant. A|small part of Epping Forest lies in the north and east of the borough.Wandsworth: LONDON: Metropolitan Borough of Battersea, part of Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth. A bit of an oddity as the only part of the old Wandsworth is a rump after Clapham and Streatham had gone to Lambeth. Battersea had been part of the ancient borough of Wandsworth though, so the name was carried forward. Although Clapham was ceded from the old Wandsworth, Clapham Common was in Battersea and so remains in Wandsworth.Westminster, City of: LONDON: Metropolitan Borough of Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough of Westminster. Inherited city status from the old borough of Westminster and that is now incorporated into the official name of the current borough. The former borough did not do this; the short-lived diocese of Westminster lasted only from its inception in 1541 until its suppression in 1550 along with city status which was not officially reinstated until 1900. The de facto administrative capital of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.There. More than you bargained for, yes? Take time to digest!

It had the misfortune to have a place called London within its original borders. As the city of London grew and the population started to move outside of its walls enmeshing the nearby villages and hamlets within the urban sprawl a trend was set that would eventually see the eradication of the county of Middlesex.The expansion of the urban footprint was getting under way in the medieval period with Westminster developing as the place to live and work avoiding the city, the county was already in the position of having more people living in the growing metropolis than were living in the rest of the county.The adoption of London and Westminster as the capital and the centre of the political and Royal world in England meant that the already developing urban mass would continue to grow. Richard Whittington in the fourteenth century would have seen a smoky haze above the expanding ‘London’ siting amidst the otherwise rural scenery of Middlesex.This process simply continued slowly century after century as nearby villages were simply subsumed.By the start of the nineteenth century the early developments of what would become the county of London was already happening - the Metropolitan Boards of Works and similar were taking over the responsibilities of many local government tasks across a very wide area because the traditional bodies - the parish vestries and the Quarter and Special sessions of the Middlesex Bench - were simply no longer able to cope because of the growth in population as people were attracted by the lure of potential employment.The real processes that saw the end of Middlesex actually began with the Act that first created Middlesex County Council. The Local Government Act of 1888 created the idea of County Councils and Middlesex County Council was formally incorporated and commenced its duties on 1st April 1889.The County Council was based at Middlesex Guildhall on Parliament Square in London (later the building which houses the Supreme Court!).The same Act of 1888 created the new County of London. (It gets complicated from hereon). Westminster was a constituent part of the new County of London, but the County of Middlesex chose to use the Guildhall as their headquarters despite it no longer being in Middlesex. A large chunk of the now urbanised county of Middlesex was absorbed in the County of London (as was also a part of Kent, Surrey and Essex).The majority of the remaining county of Middlesex were those parts in the west and north of the original county. And so it continued until…The Greater London Act, 1963 abolished the County of London and county council (LCC) and the metropolitan boroughs that had been created at the start of the twentieth century. It created a much larger county named Greater London, and the Greater London Council (GLC) took over the headquarters of the old LCC on the south ban of the Thames diagonally opposite the Palace of Westminster across Westminster bridge.The impact on Middlesex was for it to disappear entirely except in some names and titles, such as the Middlesex Cricket Club (MCC). The parts in the north not absorbed into the GLC area were absorbed instead by Hertfordshire County Council. The bulk of what remained was in the west around Ashford. Almost in compensation for the large losses of area by Surrey County Council (SCC) and the old county of Surrey including the County Borough of Croydon (which was not under the SCC but had historically been a large town in Surrey) the area around Ashford was now to be part of the Surrey County Council area.Ironically, when the county councils were set up in 1889 the SCC set up its home in Kingston-upon-Thames. The County Hall remained in Kingston even after the new London Borough of Kingston upon Thames (now Royal Borough!) was removed from Surrey.So, in summary, the people of Ashford in Middlesex were once governed by the Parish Vestry of Ashford and the Quarter Sessions of Middlesex which were based from 1805 in the Middlesex Guildhall.When the Middlesex County Council came into being in 1889 the people of Ashford were governed from Middlesex Guildhall by the new county council, despite the fact that this was now in a different county!When the greater London Council was created the county council of Middlesex ceased to be. Instead, the people of Ashford were now governed by a county council from across the river (unheard of prior to this time!) through a county council headquarters that was not situated in the county to which they now belonged.I would not be surprised to find that a lot of people in Ashford, Middlesex had a headache when they reflected on these changes!

A2AIt is referred to so because of it HISTORICAL value.It is the centre for the International Cricket Council (until 2005), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), the European Cricket Council, the historical Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and is the home-ground of Middlesex Cricket Club.Lord’s has hosted the most World Cup Finals (3).The Lord’s has a tradition of putting up a players name who scores a century or picks a fifer on their honours board, and every player has a dream of doing this feat which will gain an entry into the history books.Lord’s is to England what MCG is to Australia.So, by combination of all these factors, the Lord’s Cricket Stadium is called as “Mecca of Cricket”